Phillies talk about the earthquake; Oswalt was seeking a new bat

Posted by Mandy Housenick | August 23, 2011 at 11:35 PM

Everybody’s got a different story about where they were when the earthquake struck just before 2 p.m. Tuesday.

But Vance Worley’s takes the cake.

“I was still sleeping,” he said. “I literally just rolled out of bed. I put my feet on the ground and stood up and that’s when everything started shaking. It was kind of different. I thought, ‘Are they working on this place?’ Then I went on Twitter, and I saw everybody was saying there was an earthquake.”

Here are a couple others stories about what guys were doing:

--Brian Schneider: “Was sitting here (in the clubhouse). The floor was shaking. The lockers. The clothes were shaking a little bit. Lasted about 20-30 seconds. When I was in Montreal we had one, and in the Arizona Fall League.”

--Charlie Manuel: “I was getting ready to go to lunch and it stopped me from eating.”

--Michael Stutes: “I was getting ready (in my apartment in Philly) to come to the field. I was getting dressed. People were running around like crazy. People were pulling their cars to the side of the road. What is that going to do? People around here were making a big deal out of it because it never happens here. It would be like having a hurricane out there in San Francisco. I had a big one in Oregon when I was a little kid. You had to hold on to stand up. Today, I was just getting drafts. I was talking with my girlfriend, and she was like, ‘What’s this?’ I said, ‘It’s an earthquake.’ We just waited a few seconds and it was over.”

OSWALT ON THE RUN

This hitting contest between the pitchers has gotten so intense that Roy Oswalt needed to find himself a new bat.

Here's the kicker: It's not his.

I was standing on the dugout steps Tuesday when Oswalt asked if he could borrow my pen.

I handed it over, only to watch him turn the No. 11 on the bottom of the bat to a No. 44.

That's right....he made the black No. 11 transform to his number.

"So, you're stealing Jimmy's bat?" I said.

"Yep. I was hitting good with it, so now I'm keeping it," he said with a big smirk.

In all seriousness, he told Rollins he was keeping the bat, and Rollins certainly didn't mind.